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sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. — Sanober Khan

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen. — Nihad Sirees

Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen. — Sandra J. Jackson

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. — Bill Owens

Just what I need." Pen throws back the blankets. "Another man in my life. At least this one doesn't speak. — Lauren DeStefano

The paper is your canvas. The pen is your brush. Create your masterpiece. — Julian Vaughan Hampton

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write. — Avijeet Das

Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye. — Shilpa Sandesh

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. — John Cleveland

Nobody ever looks behind the pen. — Khali Raymond

Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen — Lois McMaster Bujold

You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton

It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself springs from the writer's pen. — Kate Mulgrew

He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened. — Hugh Laurie

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still. — Lydia Millet

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres. — Fennel Hudson

Anyone who says the pen is mightier than the sword has never come face-to-face with a gun. — Rabih Alameddine

For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword. — Max Hawthorne

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. ~ — Irene C. Kassorla

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper. — Chuck D

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. — Gustave Flaubert

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath. — Spalding Gray

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen. — Colette

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen. — Shannon L. Alder

I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle

The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon. — Lemon Andersen

I only hold the pen while my mind does the writing — P.J. Bayliss

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told. — Julianne Malveaux

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot — Albert Einstein

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. — Kingsley Amis

Free Trader Beowulf - you had to be at least forty and a recovering pen-and-paper role-playing-gamer to get the reference, but it was apt. Google it. — Lev Grossman

I have found that the tools for my trade- writing, are very basic: paper, a pen, time, food and perhaps a little tequila... — Jose N. Harris

The pen is the lever that moves the world. — Thomas De Witt Talmage

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime's memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller's window. — Fennel Hudson

The sovereign people have declared they want to take back the reins of their Destiny. — Marine Le Pen

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. — Lake Bell

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus. — Samuel Rutherford

And if he poked me in the back with a pen one more freaking time, I was going to throw him in front of an Arum. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Be mindful of your thoughts and words for they are the pen writing that which will manifest. — Sanjo Jendayi

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life. — Pharrell Williams

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. — Anne Tyler

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. — George Henry Lewes

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it. — Shia Labeouf

The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past. — Patti Stanger

Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen. — Malala Yousafzai

Things seemed clear in my head and even when I talked before the crowd, but the words never came out of the pen right. Besides, — Suzanne Collins

The pen is a poor exchange for the long-barreled gun." "It does more execution, nevertheless, — Frederick Marryat

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. — Bob Dylan

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is my pen, too. With it, I write my story, again and again, in the walls. So I don't forget. So it becomes real. — Lauren Oliver

The more she tried to recapture the impulse that had set her wanting to put pen to paper, the less it seemed to have ever existed in the first place. — Charles De Lint

Some say that "the pen is mightier than the sword." I say "the keyboard is your machine gun. — Sean Donovan

Let your heart dance with pen and paper
Now fill the paper with dancing letters. — Debasish Mridha

My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10.
My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'. — The Notorious B.I.G.

The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye. — Henry Ward Beecher

I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith

For a while, it's just the sound of the water, and then Pen says, I didn't want him to die. — Lauren DeStefano

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it. — Karen Joy Fowler

There's Power in the Pen! — Katavious Ellis

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Never trust someone else to write your life story. Take the pen, and write it yourself. — Ellen J. Barrier

Hand her the notebook and pen and then back out of the driveway. — Colleen Hoover

The pencil is mightier than the pen. — Robert M. Pirsig

All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen. — Michelle Franklin

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic. — Alison Tyler

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world. — Ba Jin

Life is the greatest chance that has been given to all of us. So how do you choose to live your life? You've got a pen. Write it down. — Kcat Yarza

The pen is mightier than the sword - It's also easier to write with! — Benny Hill

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour. — Lincoln Child

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX

We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace. — Vincent Louis Carrella

The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer. — Leslie Caron

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the keyboard never runs out of ink. — Jason Landry

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way — Jacques Barzun

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

I'm likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight. — Fennel Hudson

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend. — William Shakespeare

Devon: "Why, Bryn, I do believe he's given her your pen."
Bryn: "Well, get Freud on the phone. He'll have a field day with this one. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years. — Adam Ant

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Annisa Widi Astuty

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

Like Ice Cube asks, "Why are more niggers in the pen than in college?" It's easier to go to the pen than it is to go to college. — Snoop Dogg

Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice. — Damian Marley

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world. — Anthony Liccione

What are you going to do if you find art, Pen? You going to steal some and put it in the van?"
"I'm going to remember. When there was art. — Francesca Lia Block

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. — William Wordsworth

Sebastian notices the girl too, so he opens up his binder to a fresh sheet of paper, then takes out a pen and writes, I still really miss you. — Lauren Barnholdt

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. — John Philip Sousa